This Chinese Firm is Already Putting Businesses on an Ethereum-Based Blockchain

VeChain is a subsidiary and in-production blockchain platform of BitSE, a Blockchain-as-Service provider. That’s right – companies are actually using the proprietary, permissioned ledger based on Ethereum in the now. PwC, the multinational professional services firm, recently invested in Singapore-based VeChain S.E.A with hopes of helping to expand the blockchain-product into South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. No proof-of-concept, consumers can already buy wine in DIG with the VeChain application, as well as track information about a particular wine. Babyghost fashion clothes....

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The Chinese search engine giant and Google's rival, Baidu has suddenly decided to suspend all cryptocurrency related advertisements on its platform.
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China is the biggest contributor to the Bitcoin sector in many ways. We all know that majority of the hashing power is currently contributed by the Chinese mining pools; it probably has more Bitcoin mining data centers than any other country, and most of the Bitcoin ASICs are designed and fabricated in there. The Chinese contribution is not only limited to the technological infrastructure; the Chinese are also active traders, and a significant number of transactions over the Bitcoin blockchain originate from mainland China and other territories like Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. The region also....

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